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...Mozart joined the Freemasons in an attempt to find comfort. His Magic Flute, based on a Masonic theme, was a success, but he was by then too sick (a "general breakdown") to enjoy it very much. He was writing his last, heartrending begging-letters and struggling to finish the Requiem that was to be "my death-song." "I have nothing more to fear," he wrote to his old friend, da Ponte. "I have come to an end before having had the enjoyment of my talent. Life was indeed so beautiful, my career begun under such fortunate auspices; but one cannot...
...city of Salzburg was aglow last summer with a magnificent production of Mozart's Magic Flute. To help usher in the Mozart year with style, the Austrians commissioned Oskar Kokoschka to design sets for the opera. The sets were a great success, and so was an extensive exhibit of Kokoschka's work at the Residenz Museum. Seventy year old Kokoschka was as bold as ever and from the looks of the large dramatic canvasses, sprawling with jotted forms and gushing color, gayer than usual. There was still a message but Kokoschka was definitely concentrating less on ideology and more...
...hard enough to produce in the opera house, where the conductor is only 20-odd feet from his cast. On TV it is twice as hard: the conductor is in another room. This week the NBC Opera Theatre televised its 38th opera production, Mozart's masterpiece, The Magic Flute, two hours of soaring music and symbolic drama, beautifully sung and bewitchingly visualized in color...
...monitor screens in the chorus room and at various points in the block-long onetime movie studio that served as the stage. There, relay conductors glued their eyes to his baton and conducted the singers. Probably the most remarkable fact of all: more than on any stage. The Magic Flute's fairy-tale plot seemed perfectly at home on TV, the medium of Disneyland and space cadets (in fact, Tamino's costume resembled a space suit...
...Opera Theater (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBC). Mozart's The Magic Flute...